Comit Japanese Partnership Deal Provides Access to New Technology and Markets.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000 Marking a strategic initiative in its Japanese operations, Comit Systems, Inc. has entered into a Joint Marketing Agreement with Apollo Giken Corporation of Yokohama, Japan enabling the companies to jointly provide complete engineering solutions to Japanese customers. Apollo Giken will market Comit's services in the areas of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. Design and Verification, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. Design and Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Design to its customers in Japan. Apollo Giken provides Digital/Analog Circuit Design, miniature PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. design and manufacturing and industrial design, primarily to the Matsushita Group and Sony Corporation. The alliance also provides Comit with access to high precision miniature circuit board design and manufacturing facilities to augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: its service offerings to its U.S. and European customers. Mr. Venkat Iyer, director of Engineering in charge of Comit's operations in Japan as country manager, said, &uot;Comit has a proven track record of delivering Contract Engineering Services. Consistent with its goal of becoming the number one global contract engineering service provider, this alliance would help Comit to grow in Japan, leveraging Apollo's experience in system development and its customer base.&uot; Mr. Niho Hirai, director at Apollo Giken, said, &uot;Apollo's skills in board and systems development would be complemented by Comit's expertise in FPGA and ASIC designs. This agreement will enable Apollo to better support its present customers and widen wid·en tr. & intr.v. wid·ened, wid·en·ing, wid·ens To make or become wide or wider. wid  en·er n. its customer base.&uot; About Apollo Giken Corporation: Founded in 1978, Apollo Giken is a leading developer and provider of printed circuit board design and manufacturing services. Apollo has its own products for Car Navigation/Control, CAD tools and Teletext teletext: see videotex. A broadcasting service that transmits text to a TV set that has a teletext decoder. It uses the vertical blanking interval of the TV signal (black line between frames when vertical hold is not adjusted) to transmit about a hundred systems. Apollo has branches in Osaka, Japan and Shanghai, China. More information on Apollo is available at http://www.apollo-g.co.jp. About Comit Systems: Recognized as one of the 100 fastest growing private companies in the Silicon Valley, Comit Systems, through its Global Design Centers in Santa Clara and Yokohama, provides turnkey contract engineering services for electronic product development through the design of chips, board, software and systems, using the latest enabling technologies and tools. More information on Comit Systems may be found on the Internet at http://www.comit.com. |
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